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Newspaper
Weekly Exponent
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1883
Page
6
A feature on Chinese folklore highlights the celestial maiden archetype, detailing striking traits and virtues attributed to legendary heroines. The piece surveys cultural depictions and moral lessons tied to these mythic figures.
The article argues Chinese women are highly valued for motherhood and virtue. It discusses dowries, arranged marriages, social status tied to sons, and memorials for virtuous widows. It notes how mothers gain honors when their sons achieve civil or military distinction and praises female influence on the next generation.
The large Lake Winnipesogee islands are becoming summer resorts. The 99 year lease of Davis Island to Hon Stilton Mutchings and nine other Washington financiers starts January 1 1884. Davis Island is over 500 acres and owned by George Moore. Lease costs 1000 dollars yearly with option to buy for 20000 within twenty years. Improvements planned include cottages and a large hotel for Washington visitors.
A report in the Troy Telegram states bones found while digging a well on Edward McCleary’s farm at Water viiet Centre likely belong to a horse, not a mastodon. Professor Wall of Albany confirms the bones show recent death, with tendons still attached. Relics are held at Professor Mall’s Geological Museum in Albany.
Springfield Republicans reports General Diaz has pushed a law through twenty of twenty seven Mexican states. It limits press freedom by allowing editors to be jailed on charges of revolution incitement public morality or libel without bail until provisional Alcalde trial. Diaz aims for re election after Gonzales term.
A Detroit scene features Sarah Fenton fined five dollars for a cholera scare after pleading innocence and pleading cloudy days. The piece shifts to critique of telegraph companies using private property to string lines, citing a John Street landlord whose roof leak was caused by rampant wires installed without consent. three corporations deny liability while two insurers pay.
In Galveston a beggar once wealthy corners a troupe of commercial travelers on a veranda. He accepts ten cents to fund a nightcap claiming it will help him sleep through the night, citing atmospheric influences plaguing the island.
In a whimsical reminiscence the narrator recalls collecting a large hornet nest and encountering hornets that trigger faded memories. Vivid anecdotes describe hornets landing on the narrator and the challenge of removing them, including a dramatic scene on the head and a comparison to summer squashes. The piece ends noting the hornet’s odd, forever new charm.
The Rose Queen was crowned in a field near the parish church at Worsley with a crowd of about two thousand. Royal pageantry followed featuring dancers, foresters, soldiers, peasants, and a child queen carried on Brackley cricketers' shoulders. The Countess of Ellesmere crowned her, and a cheer rang out as God Save the Queen played.
Public speech by James Smith, chief of the striking linemen, details risky acts on private properties. He claims linemen after sneaking on roofs and installing fixtures, driving spikes, and stealing rights of way, then bluffed property owners resisting their demands.
An elderly New Yorker recalls pistol prowess of Recorder Hackett in rifle match tales. Hackett reportedly knocked pennies from fingers and shot a lemon balanced on a head, while observers, including Mrs. Horace Clark, watched. A Long Island club anecdote ends with Hackett firing at his father’s cigar ashes.
A letter describes a porous madstone from Matstone and Brooklyn Union lore. It explains use steps dipping in milk or tepid water to open pores then scarifying the wound to bleed, applying the stone to absorb venom, and repeating until poison is controlled. It warns effectiveness is disputed in the North but noted usage in the South.
An 1680 journal excerpt from the Sphinx describes four ships from London near Lipari and Mount Stromboli. Captains Brown Burnaby and Booty witness two spectral figures in black and gray descend into the volcano as flames erupt, later claimed to be dead. The tale ends with Mrs Burnaby revealing Old Mr Booty is dead and the others recalling their sighting.
An Arkansas story from the Arkansaw Traveler recounts a near encounter before the Mark's Mill engagement in Bradley County. A federal scout and a Confederate guide rode through woods misreading routes, trading exclamations upon recognizing rebel leaders Shelby Marmaduke and Maxey with his Indians as battle thunder began.
Last Tuesday a gigantic vertebra was dug from marly beds of Mr. N F Baley in Jackson. Scientists say it belongs to a marine animal and its form is nearly perfect except for a broken edge. The bone measures twenty six inches around and weighs forty pounds. It will be sent to Mississippi College at Clinton.
A farmer uncovering a stone in Borzecice, Krotoczin district, Prussian Poland, led to the discovery of 630 silver coins of Bohémian, Hungarian, and Anglo mintage. The trove included ornaments and a few silver bars and was moved to the Royal Museum coins in Berlin for custody.
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